The All Time Best Performance By An Actor

Brando in Last Tango In Paris, particularly when he is beside the coffin.

That has to got to Geb since he starred in his own movie.

My Dreams Will Be My Reality wrote:

Brando in Last Tango In Paris, particularly when he is beside the coffin.

Or Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire

Or Sean Penn in Dead Man Walking or Bad Boys

Or Gary Oldman in State of Grace or JFK

or Daniel Day-Lewis in The Boxer or Gangs of New York

Or maybe Ben Affleck in Gigli

Paul Newman in "Cool Hand Luke."

Dustin Hoffman - The Graduate

Peter O'Toole - Lawrence of Arabia

Bill Murray - Caddyshack

Al Pacino - Dog Day Afternoon

Gene Hackman - The French Connection

master thespian wrote:

My Dreams Will Be My Reality wrote:

Brando in Last Tango In Paris, particularly when he is beside the coffin.

Or Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire

Or Sean Penn in Dead Man Walking or Bad Boys

Oh yeah. Even dubbed he's still fantastic. Hard to believe this was his first film after Fast Times:

Hulk Hogan as Thunderlips in Rocky III

You hit the nail on the head with Peter O'Toole for Lawrence of Arabia. Best performance Ever. Good movie too.I agree that Pacino was good in Dog Day Afternoon but I thought he was even better in Glenn Gary Glenn Ross (the salesman). Actually he was pretty good in Devils Advocate too (I love the way he said: "I'm a fan of Man."). A pretty good actor all around.

meltdown wrote:

Dustin Hoffman - The Graduate

Peter O'Toole - Lawrence of Arabia

Bill Murray - Caddyshack

Al Pacino - Dog Day Afternoon

Gene Hackman - The French Connection

pierce brosnan in goldeneye.

Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison. Also, I personally thought he was great as Doc Holliday in "Tombstone"

Sean Penn was good in "Dead Man Walking"

Brad Pitt as Floyd in "True Romance"

and of course take your pick between Sly Stallone in "Cobra" or as Lincoln Hawk in "Over the Top"

Deniro in Raging Bull.

nice picks wrote:

You hit the nail on the head with Peter O'Toole for Lawrence of Arabia. Best performance Ever. Good movie too.

I agree that Pacino was good in Dog Day Afternoon but I thought he was even better in Glenn Gary Glenn Ross (the salesman). Actually he was pretty good in Devils Advocate too (I love the way he said: "I'm a fan of Man."). A pretty good actor all around.

We must be twins, seperated at birth. LOA is my fav flick, and GGGR is my fav Pacino film. GGGR is sadly overlooked. The script is absolutely wonderful.

Rock Hudson convincingly courted girls in some of his movies. Amazing.

This will probably be the most obscure choice on here, but the winner is Per Oscarsson for "Hunger," a Scandinavian film based on the Knut Hamsun novel. He won the National Society of Film Critics and Cannes Festival Best Actor Awards back in the day. I'm not even sure this can be found on DVD or even VHS at this point.

I know we're talking film and not TV here, but one performance I will watch anytime it is on is from an actor named John Larch in the "Twilight Zone" episode in which Billy Mumy is the monster kid with the ability to transform things into...well, other things. To watch Larch, who plays Mumy's dad, try and keep a sunny and upbeat atmosphere going in the midst of this nightmare is stunning every time.

nicholson in one flew over the cuckoos nest

Kevin Spacey in Seven

Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone!!! You can't match the quotes that he put out in this movie.

"I'm your Huckleberry", "I'm afraid the strain was too much for him to bare" and many many more

You're no daisy! You're no daisy at all!

Cowboy:

"Why, it's the drunk piano player. You're so drunk, you can't hit nothin'. In fact, you're probably seeing double."

Holliday:

"I have two guns, one for each of ya."